Monthly Archives: February 2012

Spring in the Garden

Posted on February 26, 2012 by

It’s nowhere near official, but it is pretty clear – Spring has Sprung, and it’s only the edge of February. By the books, the last freeze in this part of Texas is mid-March, but this year, we have already had … Continue reading →

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E-book Revolution

Posted on February 23, 2012 by

So, having had my books available as Kindle and Nook editions since the very first that Amazon and B&N made that mode available to authors, I’ve decided to go all in with e-books in general and make them available through … Continue reading →

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Mr. Cannon-Ball Was Not His Friend

Posted on February 21, 2012 by

Thomas William Ward was born in Ireland of English parents in  1807, and at the age of 21 took ship and emigrated to America. He  settled in New Orleans, which by that time had passed from French to  Spanish, back … Continue reading →

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Too Hot to Hold

Posted on February 18, 2012 by

It might be a bit overused as an axiom, that civil wars are the bloodiest - or maybe it just seems that way because it seems to be so terribly personal. This is not some outsider, some foreigner, some alien stranger … Continue reading →

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Interviews Without Pain

Posted on February 14, 2012 by

I have a guest post on this topic up at Blogging Authors – how to do the easiest kind of interview. Remember, I was a trained DINFOS killer, back in the day!

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Committee of Vigilance – 1856 – Finale

Posted on February 10, 2012 by

Three carriages entered the square, and as they halted before the jail door, the ranks of waiting men presented arms. Half a dozen men descended from the carriages – William Tell Coleman and the other leaders of the Committee. They … Continue reading →

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Adelsverein Trilogy – New Edition

Posted on February 8, 2012 by

Just a note – the new edition of the individual paperback books of the Adelsverein Trilogy are now available on Amazon and at Barnes & Noble, although the ‘look inside’ feature on Amazon doesn’t look like it is activiated yet. The new … Continue reading →

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Committee of Vigilance – 1856 – Part Two

Posted on February 8, 2012 by

The shooting of James King – political murder disguised as a justifiable response to a personal insult – inflamed the city of San Francisco immediately. King, shot in the chest but still clinging to life was taken to his house. … Continue reading →

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Committee of Vigilance, 1856

Posted on February 6, 2012 by

When gold was discovered in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada in 1848, it seemed as if most of the world rushed in to California – which, until then had been a sparsely-settled outpost of Mexico, dreaming the decades away. The … Continue reading →

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Committee of Vigilance

Posted on February 3, 2012 by

California in the Gold Rush era was by all accounts a wild and woolly place for a good few years after discovery of gold, in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. Until that moment in 1848 when John Marshall found … Continue reading →

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